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Iranian presidential election, 1980

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25 January 1980
  
1981 →

75.6%
  
15.71%

10,709,330
  
2,224,554

Iranian presidential election, 1980

The First Iranian presidential election was held on 25 January 1980. It was held one year after the Iranian Revolution when the Council of Islamic Revolution was in power. The number of the eligible voters in the country was 20,993,643. However, the number of the actual voter was 14,152,887, leading to the voter turnout of 67.4%.

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Candidates

The number of the candidates registered to run for the presidency was 124, but only 96 of them were allowed to run. There were only 8 candidates with ballot access and the rest of candidates were write-in.

Candidates with ballot access

Party nominees
  • Hassan Habibi (Islamic Republican Party)
  • Dariush Forouhar (Nation Party)
  • Kazem Sami (JAMA)
    • Non-partisan candidates
  • Abolhassan Banisadr
  • Ahmad Madani (National Front member)
  • Sadeq Tabatabaei (Freedom Movement member)
  • Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (Freedom Movement member)
  • Mohammad Mokri (National Front member)

    • Withdrew

  • Hassan Ayat (Independent; Islamic Republican Party member), endorsed Jalaleddin Farsi
  • Jalaleddin Farsi (Islamic Republican Party nominee), ineligible to run for the office due to his Afghan origin
  • Sadegh Khalkhali (Independent), endorsed Abolhassan Banisadr
  • Massoud Rajavi (People's Mujahedin of Iran nominee), forced to withdraw for opposing the Islamic Republic constitution

    • Declined to run

  • Ruhollah Khomeini
  • Mohammad Beheshti
  • Mehdi Bazargan

    • Election results

    Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president.

    References

    Iranian presidential election, 1980 Wikipedia
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